The Whale and the Reactor

A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

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Published
July 2010

"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."—David Dickson, New York Times Book Review

"The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day."—Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis

Preface Acknowledgments I. A Philosophy of Technology 1. Technologies as Forms of Life 2. Do Artifacts Have Politics? 3. Techne and Politeia II. Technology: Reform and Revolution4. Building the Better Mousetrap 5. Decentralization Clarified 6. Mythinformation III. Excess and Limit7. The State of Nature Revisited 8. On Not Hitting the Tar-Baby 9. Brandy, Cigars and Human Values 10. The Whale and the Reactor Notes Index

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